THE S W A R .W 

 that pemin to the spirit ? Can we so 

 readily divine the thoughts that mav 

 §:overn the two or three people we mav 

 chance to see moving and talking behind 

 a closed window, when their words do 

 not reach us ? Or let us suppose that an 

 inhabitant of \'enus or .Mars were to con- 

 template us from the height of a moun- 

 tain, and watcli the little black specks 

 that we form in space, as we come and 

 go in the streets and squares of our towns. 

 Would the mere siglit of our moN'ements, 

 our buildings, machines, and can.ils. con\"ey 

 to him auN' precise idea of our moralit}', 

 intellect, our manner of thinkin.g. and 

 loN'ing. and hoping. — in a word, of our 

 red] and intimate self? All he could do, 

 like ourseh'es uiien we gaze at the hi\'e, 

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